{"id":28127,"date":"2026-04-11T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fc-basel-postpone-fixture-against-fc-thun-after-fire-at-st-jakob-park-stadium\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:45:04","slug":"fc-basel-postpone-fixture-against-fc-thun-after-fire-at-st-jakob-park-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fc-basel-postpone-fixture-against-fc-thun-after-fire-at-st-jakob-park-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Basel postpone fixture against FC Thun after fire at St Jakob-Park stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">FC Basel&#8217;s Swiss Super League match against FC Thun has been postponed following a fire at Basel&#8217;s St Jakob-Park stadium.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire, which occurred on Friday evening, &#8220;destroyed&#8221; the first-team dressing room, including the players&#8217; kits and boots. It also caused &#8220;significant damage&#8221; to the equipment rooms, coaching and team manager&#8217;s office, physio and shower facilities, and medical and technical equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No-one was injured in the fire. Its cause has &#8220;not yet been clarified&#8221;, a statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">FC Basel, who sit in fourth place in the Swiss Super League, were due to travel to table-toppers FC Thun on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The fire, accompanied by heavy smoke development, caused significant damage and completely destroyed the entire locker room area of the first team,&#8221; the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Due to the damage incurred and no usable game and medical equipment available, the away game against FC Thun is not possible for FCB.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">FC Basel confirmed the postponement has been approved by the league, with the fixture set to be rearranged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Jakob-Park hosted the 2016 Europa League final, in which Liverpool played Sevilla, and the final of the 2025 Women&#8217;s Euros between England and Spain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce8jeg4k3p0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FC Basel&#8217;s Swiss Super League match against FC Thun has been postponed following a fire at Basel&#8217;s St Jakob-Park stadium. The fire, which occurred on Friday evening, &#8220;destroyed&#8221; the first-team dressing room, including the players&#8217; kits and boots. It also caused &#8220;significant damage&#8221; to the equipment rooms, coaching and team manager&#8217;s office, physio and shower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28129,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127\/revisions\/28129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}